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Following the previous report on Philipines Coral Reef.  WWF Reef fish and other marine species can breathe easier with the introduction of a fishing ban around Apo Reef, the largest coral reef in the Philippines and the second largest contiguous reef in the world after the Great Barrier Reef. Under the ban, all extractive activities, [...]

Discovery Channel Consumers may have a new weapon against high utility bills: energy-efficient roofs and attics. The prototype system uses, among other things, hi-tech, phase-changing material to reduce hot attic temperatures in the summer and limit heat loss in the winter. : According to Miller, the prototype system combines four different technologies into one high-efficiency [...]

MSNBC Cities around the U.S. are joining influential restaurateurs and activists in a public campaign to be launched Wednesday to convince consumers to choose tap water over bottles. : Critics say bottled water wastes energy and resources through production of plastic bottles and energy used in the shipping process. Their efforts are aimed at curbing [...]

reuters Israeli scientists are building a giant concrete reef to lure more divers and snorkelers to the Red Sea without endangering one of the world’s most diverse coral communities. : “People and coral don’t really go together,” Nadav Shashar, a marine ecologist at Israel’s Ben Gurion University told Reuters. “What we are trying to do [...]

AP A rare bird that breeds in a remote Russian province is facing extinction, conservationists warned Friday, after a survey found that the numbers of the spoon-billed sandpiper had dropped dramatically. Experts from the Britain-based conservation group BirdLife International blamed the decline of breeding pairs in Chukotka province on loss of key feeding sites during [...]

scienceblogs This new species was recently found in eastern Brazil. The bird was captured, studied and its vocalizations were recorded by ornithologists. The data collected from these birds, particularly this species’ vocalizations, have been used to write a formal scientific description of this new species. Even though this lovely little bird was first observed in [...]

reuters A South China tiger has been caught on camera by a hunter-turned-farmer, the first confirmed sighting for 30 years of a sub-species experts had feared was extinct in the wild, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Zhou Zhenglong took over 70 snaps of the young tiger lying in the grass near a cliff [...]